causation (pratītyasamutpādo) in the regular and in the inverse order. Beings were to be represented "as being born in a supernatural way (aupapādukāḥ), as by the machinery of a waterwheel, falling from one state and being produced in another." The wheel was made and placed in the "grand entrance gateway" (dvārakoshṭhake), and a bhikshu appointed to interpret it. NOTES OF THE QUARTER. (January, February, March, 1894.) I. GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 14th Nov. 1893.-Lord REAY, President, in the Chair. It was announced that— Mr. F. H. Hill Guillemard, Mr. K. B. Dutt, Mr. B. Borrah, Mr. B. L. Gupta, Pandit Hari Prasad Sastri, Dr. Hans Stumme, Mr. D. E. Hogarth, Mr. R. J. Lake, Mr. H. Beveridge, The Raja Visvanath Singh, Mr. P. Beni Madho, The Hon. Dr. Ras Bihari Ghosh, Mr. Hem Chandra Banerji, Mr. E. J. Long Scott, Mr. J. M. Parsonson, Guru Prasad Sen, Mr. P. N. Bose, The Raja Pyari Mohun Mukerji, Major-General Jago-Trelawney, had been elected members of the Society. Dr. M. A. Stein read a paper on "Tours Archæological and Topographical in and about Kashmir." will appear in full in the Journal. The paper 12th Dec. 1893.-Lord REAY, President, in the Chair. It was announced that Lieut.-Colonel Plunkett, Mr. Henry Leitner, Mr. Dastur Darab Peshotan Sanjana, had been elected members of the Society. Surgeon-Major Waddell read a paper on "The Tibetan Worship of Avalokitā and his Consorts Marīci and Tara," and exhibited paintings, photographs, and rosaries, illustrative of his archæological researches in the Ganges Valley. The paper was published in the January issue. 16th Jan. 1894.-Lord REAY, President, in the Chair. It was announced that— Mr. G. R. S. Mead, The Rev. T. Witton Davies, The Rev. A. Kluht, were elected members of the Society. Miss Foley read a paper on the "Vedalla Sutta," with special reference to the psychological basis of Buddhist Ethics. The paper appears in this number of the Journal. Surgeon-Major Waddell also exhibited a number of Tibetan hats and explained the meanings attached by the Lamas to their shape. 13th Feb. 1894.-Lord REAY, President, in the Chair. It was announced that Mrs. Plimmer, Kalipada Bandyopadhyaya, Principal of the Jeypore Sanskrit College, Mr. John Beames, Mr. Ney Elias, had been elected members of the Society. Mr. R. F. St. Andrew St. John read a paper on the "Sāma Jātaka," which appears in the present number. 13th March, 1894.-Lord REAY, President, in the Chair. It was announced that Sanjiban Ganguli, Head Master of the Mahārāja's College, Jeypore, had been elected a member of the Society. In the absence of the author, Surgeon-Major Waddell, the Secretary read a paper on "Buddha's Secret as explained by a Sixth Century Pictorial Commentary and Tibetan Traditions." The paper appears in the present number. II. CONTENTS OF FOREIGN ORIENTAL Journals. 1. JOURNAL ASIATIQUE. N.S. Tome ii. No. 3. De Harlez (C.). Koue-Yu ou Discours des Royaumes. De Vaux (M. le Baron Carra). Les mécaniques ou l'élévateur de Héron d'Alexandrie. Derenbourg (Hartwig). Une épitaphe minéenne d'Egypte, inscrite sous Ptolémée. 2. ZEITSCHRIFT DER DEUTSCHEN MORGENLÄNDISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT. Band xxvii. Heft 4. Conrady (August). Ein Sanskrit-Newārī-Wörterbuch. Jacobi (H.). Ueber die Betonung im klassischen Sanskrit und in den Prakrit Sprachen. Bollensen (Fr.). Beiträge zur Kritik des Rigveda. Franke (O.). Beziehungen der Inder zum Westen. Jolly (J.). Beiträge zur indischen Rechtsgeschichte. Kohn (Dr. S.). Die Samaritanische Pentateuch-übersetzung nach der Ausgabe von Petermann und Vollers. III. OBITUARY NOTICES. Dr. Alois Sprenger.-We regret to have to announce the death of Dr. Alois Sprenger, one of our Honorary Members. The following short account of his career is taken from the Homeward Mail of Jan. 29th: "Born Sept. 3, 1813, at Nassereuth, in Tyrol, he was sent at the age of nineteen to the University of Vienna, where he devoted himself to the study of medicine and of the Oriental languages until the year 1836, when he went to Paris, and shortly afterwards came to London, where, after rendering considerable service to the Earl of Munster in his projected work on the Military History of the Mahomedan Nations (a work which has never yet been made public), he obtained an appointment in the medical service of the East India Company, and went to Calcutta in 1843. Shortly after this he was appointed principal of the Mahomedan College at Delhi, where he remained until 1848, when he was sent as assistant resident to the Court of Lucknow. During his residence at Lucknow he compiled a catalogue of the MSS. in the library of the King of Oude (which were subsequently destroyed during the Mutiny). The catalogue, or rather a portion of it, was printed at Calcutta in 1854, the rest having apparently been lost. From 1851 to 1854 we find him stationed at Calcutta as Persian translator to the Government, and principal of the Mahomedan College at Hooghli, and of the Calcutta Madrasa,' having in the meantime devoted himself, during a short leave of absence on account of ill-health, to the collection of material for his long-projected 'Life of Mohammed,' of which the first volume (in English) was printed at Allahabad in 1851. He retired from the Service in 1858, and returned to Europe, where he passed the remainder of his days. He died at Heidelberg on Dec. 19 last, in the eighty-first year of his age. India is indebted to Dr. Sprenger for the first vernacular paper printed in that country-namely, a weekly |